Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 006-045
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1971 at 9:59 AM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Goldwater, Barry M.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/006-045

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[0:00] John Scali was telling me, Barry, I had known you didn't, but he told me what a
[0:12] Really, on 30 minutes notice, how you went on that ABC program when McComber had to, on Monday, McComber had to do it, but I just wanted to thank you.
[0:22] By golly, it's good to have one guy that'll go to bat and cloud them.
[0:26] That's what we're down here for.
[0:27] That's right.
[0:27] Well, I'll tell you, stir up a few of your other guys to get the way.
[0:31] Although, I'll tell you...
[0:32] Isn't that house doing well, though, the way they voted the other way in that damn amendment?
[0:35] Oh, my God, if it weren't for the House... And let me tell you, one of the great men over there, Barry, I hope you tell him when you see him, is Eddie Hebert.
[0:41] God, he's like a rock.
[0:42] Yep, he is.
[0:43] He's like a rock, I'm telling you.
[0:45] Thank God we have him, because the Senate is really going berserk.
[0:48] Yeah, when you were...
[0:52] Yesterday, the votes were all right, but when you're talking to Eddie sometime, you just might say that, boy, the... Because I really feel this.
[0:58] Without him, we couldn't run this.
[0:59] Eddie Hebert in the House, and, of course, John Stennis stands up in the Senate.
[1:04] But Hebert just has told me, he says, by God, he's going to be like a rock in that conference until they knock out that date.
[1:09] Well, they're going to do it, I think.
[1:10] Yeah.
[1:12] Okay.
[1:12] All right.
[1:13] Thank you.
[1:13] Thank you, Mr. President.